# E-Mail **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661 "2008-04-02T12:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/1 "2008-04-02T12:41:33Z")
I gotta assume this has been asked before but don’t see anything relatively current so here goes. How many e-mails do you send/receive a day. I catch myself e-mailing folks that are literally in the office next door on whether they want to go to lunch, go for a drink after work, etc. I also catch myself in seemingly endless e-mail threads that could have been more quickly addressed if I had just picked up the phone or gotten off my lazy butt and walked down the hall to talk face to face. Seems kind of nutty at times. Yesterday - 129 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/2 "2008-04-02T15:30:46Z")
\ This will do much better in IMHO. GQ \> IMHO \ ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/3 "2008-04-02T15:35:44Z")
Today I’ve sent 38. I try to phone people as much as possible, it’s just nicer to talk to a person than type an email. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/4 "2008-04-02T16:57:46Z")
Specific mails or mails \* number of recipients? Mine varies wildly. Some days I just send a few, and some days I send a lot to reasonably large mailing lists. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/5 "2008-04-03T02:20:51Z")
[QUOTE=peekercpa] I gotta assume this has been asked before but don’t see anything relatively current so here goes. How many e-mails do you send/receive a day. I catch myself e-mailing folks that are literally in the office next door on whether they want to go to lunch, go for a drink after work, etc. I also catch myself in seemingly endless e-mail threads that could have been more quickly addressed if I had just picked up the phone or gotten off my lazy butt and walked down the hall to talk face to face. Seems kind of nutty at times. Yesterday - 129 [/QUOTE] 40-50/day. pretty consistent. about 10 of them are to myself. I email myself to remind me of something that I have to do. Either at my desk or at home. Frequently my coworkers and I will have a meeting and someone will email the group with a summary of what was discussed. Talking is all well and good, but there is no record (fortunately in some cases!). ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail/443661/6 "2008-04-03T10:44:35Z")
In my current position only about 20-25 a day or so, in my previous job I received more like 50-60 a day. I try and talk to people or have phone conversations where possible, email is used to communicate with more than one person or present particularly complex information or send attachements.